Late Late Late

[ColmmacO]

If the government were serious about public transport and wanted to save some money quickly they should incentivise Irish rails subsidy against their timing stats.

[James Howard]

The same applies to Longford services. The 1805 to Longford has been consistently 15 minutes late at Edgeworthstown every evening for at least the last two months. Very occasionally, they manage to get it down to 5 minutes late. And this is with about 15 minutes padding in the timetable as well.

As far as I know they don't even publish seperate stats for Longford but they would be pretty poor.

In the UK they publish peak-time stats as well. These are far more relevent as more than 80% of people travel at peak.

[dowlingm]

Originally Posted by ColmmacO

If the government were serious about public transport and wanted to save some money quickly they should incentivise Irish rails subsidy against their timing stats.

The problem there is that with less subsidy service will suffer. With fewer trains punctuality will increase because of less congestion. Is that the answer? I would think the answer is to demand that management identify the causes of lateness and if they can't or won't remedy it, hire people who will try something else.